Eat a 30-Pound Burrito and Earn a Stake in a Mexican Restaurant

NBC News ^ | 10/14/2015 | Katie Little

[simpson96]

"That burrito was a good appetizer. Now were's my entree?"

[COBOL2Java]

[ichabod1]

[who_would_fardels_bear]

A few years back there was this trend where anyone who wanted to could submit a paragraph or two of why they would be the best owner of a new restaurant, home, boat, whatever. They also had to submit $100.

There was a restaurant that did this in Colorado that seemed like a great deal. However, when I looked into it it turned out they had a bunch of debt from fines for hiring illegal aliens. So even if I had somehow gotten a restaurant for $100, I would have been on the hook for thousands from the get go.

I'm thinking something similar is going on here.

[samtheman]

MM probably owns a chain of these restaurants already.

[simpson96]

"BRING. IT. ON."

[bigtoona]

It’s kind of sad that we used to have innocent and fun pie eating contests and such at local festivals and county fairs. Now we have ‘competitive eaters’ that take all the fun out of it.

The contests get bigger and bigger, I wonder when someone will finally rupture their gut and die a horrible death during one of these things. It seems that 6 pounds of food in a sitting is the upper limit. Not sure how they will tackle 30 pounds....

[Army Air Corps]

Ping...or not.

[knarf]

[Revelation 911]

its impossible and the owner opens the business to a huge liability in challenging someone to do it.

[Snickering Hound]

"Where's my buttito?! Where's my burrito?!"

[basil]

Sounds to me like a heart attack waiting to happen………..

[originalbuckeye]

Smart that they have that disclaimer in there. In 2007, a woman competing in a ‘Hold your wee for a Wii’ contest died of severe water intoxication after the contest. Why would anyone ever do this sort of thing to their body??

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16614865/ns/us_news-life/t/woman-dies-after-water-drinking-contest/#.ViUMeCtQCJQ

[dfwgator]

Nothing like enticing people to commit one the Seven Deadly Sins.

[skeeter]

I’ll have the lot.

[freefdny]

It’s not the burrito that’s tough to eat. It’s the wafer thin after dinner mint that gets you every time.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” Now were’s my entree?” “

A dozen Bowel Burgers Au Jus

[Riley]

...toddler-size burrito

LMAO

[SpaceBar]

"While we don't just want to give away the restaurant, we do want someone with that kind of eating credibility to come in and give it their best shot"

Such impeccable logic./s Like making the person with the most credit card debt the president of a bank.

[SamAdams76]

Aside from being a stupid undertaking, I don't think there's a serious medical risk here. Stomachs don't just "burst." Your body's gag reflex will force you to throw up when the stomach reaches its capacity - which for most people, is about the volume of food you can fit into a gallon jug of milk. Obviously the "professional" binge eaters have conditioned their stomachs to fit more.

I'm going out on a limb and saying 30 pounds of food in one sitting is an impossibility. I assume the owner of this restaurant will have barf bags ready for anybody who tries, as this will be the end result.